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    1. [MON] News Items APRIL 1st to JUNE 30th 1926. Number Three-Hundred thirtytwo.
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3. Western Mail Wednesday June 16. 1926. Mabel DAY 6, fell over the bank into the canal at Ynismeudwy, near Swansea , and although rescued by a boy, Ben JENKINS, son of Sergeant JENKINS, sustained a broken leg and an injured arm. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned at Newport on Tuesday by Mr. Charles E. JONES (deputy-coroner) at the inquest on Leonard Charles PIKE 6, 97, Baldwin-street, who was knocked down by a motor-van outside the Alexandra-road Schools and died on the way to the Royal Gwent Hospital. Leonard Augustus SHORNEY said that when the motor-van was passing the entrance to the Alexandra-road Schools, a boy dashed across the road in front of the van. He was knocked down and run over. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned by Mr. R.J. RHYS, coroner, at an inquest at Penrhiwceiber on Tuesday on Herbert Leslie DIX 14, son of Mr. Eli DIX, Glamorgan-street, Penrhiwceiber. DIX, with other boys, was climbing the face of the Penrhiwceiber Colliery Quarry, when a stone, weighing 1 1/4 cwt., fell and hit him on the head. DIX fell from ledge to ledge to the bottom of the quarry, a distance of 90 feet. The boy was taken to the hospital suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries to the face, head and left hand. He died the same night. For poaching on Sir James GERMAN'S preserves, John DAVIES, 34, collier, and John JONES, 60, unemployed, both of Caerphilly, were eached fined £1, or seven days, at Caerphilly on Tuesday. The wedding has taken place at Hope Baptist Chapel, Gilwern, near Abergavenny, of Mr. Evan PHILLIPS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard PHILLIPS, Pontypridd, and Miss Gladys Hope MORGAN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Nicholas MORGAN, Govilon. The bridemaids were Miss Mary MORGAN (sister of bride), and Miss Margaret GRIFFITHS, Cwmbran (cousin of bride). The best man was Mr. David MORGAN. Mr. Herbert C. BOND, 94, Cornerswell-road, Penarth, a member of the Cardiff Coal and Shipping Exchange, has died at a Cardiff nursing home. Mr. BOND, who was 32 years of age, was senior partner in the firm of Messrs. GRANT, HAYWARD, and Co., pitwood importers and coal exporters, Cardiff. He was the son of a master mariner, and started his commercial career at the Cardiff Docks with Messrs. C. TENNANT and Sons, and Co. (Limited) joining Messrs. A. BROMAGE and Co., pitwood importers, before going to Messrs. GRANT, HAYWARD, and Co. He was a member of the executive committee of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Pitwood Importers' Association (Limited) and a member of the Cardiff Exchange Lodge of Freemasons. During the war he served in Palestine with the Naval Reserve as a sub-lieutenant. He leaves a widow and two sons. There will be a Masonic funeral on Friday from the residence of his sister, 278, Cowbridge-road. The death as occurred at 39, Stacey-road, Cardiff, of Mrs. Rebecca GUNN, widow of Mr. W. GUNN, of Newcastle, who was formerly connected with the metal industry in the North of England. Mrs. GUNN, who came to Cardiff about twenty years ago, was an aunt of Mr. A.G. HOWELL, registrar for the diocese of Llandaff, and of Councillor G. Northcott HOWELL. The funeral of Mr. G.L. JOHNSTON (joint manager, Midland Bank, Cardiff Docks), of Stanwell-road, Penarth, took place at Penarth on Tuesday, the Rev. F.C. ROBERTS officiating. The chief mourner was Mr. W. JOHNSTON (brother). Others present included Messrs. S.M. SIMS (London), E.W. BENJAMIN (joint manager Midland Bank, Cardiff Docks), C.C. VIVIAN (joint manager, Midland Bank, Swansea), J.H.S. COOPER (manager, Midland Bank, Penarth), T. MORDEY, J.P., Dr. WALKER, Councillor W. JONES, Ll. DAVIES, J.P., F.C. PARKER (manager, Lloyds Bank), and many other members of the staffs of banks in South Wales. There was a painful scene in the Brecon Assize Court on Tuesday when Mr. Justice BRANSON sentenced Hilda JERMAIN 38, wife of an artist of Free-street, Brecon, to six months' imprisonment for uttering a number of forged £1 Treasury notes. When the jury brought in a verdict of "Guilty" the prisoner broke down. His Lordship, in passing sentence, said: This is the first time you have been in court, and one can see your punishment is great already. I cannot do less however, than send you to prison for six months, but in consideration of your previous good character it shall be in the second division. The woman collapsed on hearing the sentence, and, sobbing, had to be assisted from the dock. John Patrick

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